Research a market in a morning
A morning with the right prompts replaces a week of tabs. The rule: every number needs a source you can open, and the market is sized from buyers up, not from a report down.
What you need
- One clear question about one market
- Three hours
- Ten people you can call next week
What you will have
- A sourced brief
- A bottom-up market size
- A competitor table
- A ten-question interview script
- A one-page go or no-go
Step 1: Frame the question
10 minutes · Claude or ChatGPT
A vague question gets a vague answer.
I am considering selling dental implants to adults over 35 who have lost a tooth in Jaipur. Rewrite this as three precise research questions I can answer with public data in one morning: one on demand, one on price, one on competition.
Step 2: Deep research, with sources
40 minutes · Perplexity or ChatGPT deep research
Run deep research. Open every source it cites; delete any figure you cannot find on the page.
Research the market for dental implants for adults over 35 who have lost a tooth in Jaipur and in India. Cover market size estimates, growth, typical prices, main buyers and how they buy, and regulation. Every number must have a source link and a year. Say clearly where data is missing rather than estimating.
Step 3: Size it from the buyer up
20 minutes · Market sizer
How many buyers, times how often they buy, times the price. Use the sizer and keep your assumptions visible.
Step 4: Map the competition
30 minutes · Claude or ChatGPT
Who a buyer would choose instead, including doing nothing.
From the research above, make a table of the ten alternatives a buyer of dental implants in Jaipur has, including doing nothing: name, price, who it suits, its weakness. Only include businesses that exist; mark anything uncertain.
Step 5: Write the call script
15 minutes · Claude or ChatGPT
Ten calls beat a hundred tabs.
Write a 20-minute interview script for adults over 35 who have lost a tooth: ten open questions about how they solve this today, what it costs them and what they would change. No question that mentions my product. End with who else I should speak to.
Step 6: Decide on one page
20 minutes · Claude or ChatGPT
Go, no-go or test, with the reason.
Using everything above, write a one-page memo: the opportunity in two lines, the bottom-up size, the three biggest risks, the cheapest test that would prove or kill it in 30 days, and a recommendation of go, no-go or test.